Mother and young son drowned in backyard pool

A Ghanaian man, Emmanuel Akrong, who is based in Brampton, Canada told The Star, that on Saturday, his wife, Elisabeth Solomon called to tell him that their son, Emmanuel Akrong Jr was dying. However, when he got home minutes later, he met the bodies of his wife and son in the pool.

He yelled for help when he tried to lift the body of his wife out of the water and couldn’t, he yelled for help. His next-door neighbour, Ozzy Anjum, 28, helped him when he heard his cry for help.

Ozzy Ajum said he saw the little boy lying on the deck, unresponsive. Elisabeth Solomon 38, was face down in the pool.

He tried unsuccessfully to do CPR on the boy, then jumped into the pool with another neighbour to get Solomon.

“We dragged her out and flipped her on the deck. There was dirt in her eyes and mouth,” Anjum recalls. Then the paramedics and police arrived on the scene.

Solomon was taken to hospital, where she died early Sunday morning.  Her son was pronounced dead on arrival.